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The Supersuckers rule. | first saw them in Seattle opening for the Dwarves. They knocked my socks 
off. Four guys, two guitars (Sometimes two matching Gibson Les Pauls). They like to give you the 
finger and tell you how old they are. They write songs about giant gorillas and about being poor. 
But the best thing about the Supersuckers is that they play their instruments with power. They also 
seem to have a Hell of a good time doing it, One of the most amazing things I've ever seen was ata 
free promotional show by Subpop at Rockcandy, a club in Seattle, where the band was covered in 
beer and other miscellaneous liquids thrown on them by the audience. They seemed to feed off the 
abuse. They got better and better as they got wetter and wetter., and never faltered, even when 
literally blinded by beer. It's impossible to say exactly what makes them great. They've just got 
something Phil Collins never even heard of. . 
Needless to say | was very excited when | saw that the Suckers were playing Boston, my hometown 
with their buddies The Dwarves. Since they were playing there on the same night as Shonen Knife, | 
drove down to Providence to see an earlier show. Unfortunately, Providence is a seasonal town, and 
in the summers not many people are around to see punk rock shows. Nevertheless, the Suckers 
wowed the twenty people who showed. | guess | felt bold in my old school town or something 
because | started a conversation with Dan, the drummer. | don't remember what it started as, but 
it evolved into a comparing-notes-about-Seattle thing. Ed, the bassist/singer told me about the 
difficulties of releasing anything on vinyl. Sadly, before | could reach any kind of real conversation 
level, The Dwarves set something on fire, some locals smoked the club out with chemical fire 
extinguishers and all Hell broke loose. 

Oh well, it was great to see them, | thought, and prepared for another great band, Shonen Knife. 
Shonen Knife played at T.T.’s, The Dwarves/Suckers at The Middle East, literally next door to one 
another. Waiting outside for my friend Jessica to show up, | was keeping company with Dan and 
Ron, the guitar player, who thought | should blow off the Shonen Knife show to see them again. They 
couldn't convince me, but we had a nice talk. They told me about Arizona, where they all met and 
started The Black Supersuckers. They dropped the Black when they moved to Seattle in the Eighties 
(before the Mudhoney album came out they are quick to explain). They told me they had spent the 
previous night in some house built on the border of New York and Connecticut, “with a little plaque to 
prove it. They talked about their US/Canada tour, and the worst town they played was Vancouver. 
"Fuckin' Calgary was more fun than Vancouver.” As if Calgary were Butte, Montana or something. 
Personally | wouldn't know. My knowledge of Canadian cities is not what it should be. 

We talked about Shonen Knife, who they do not like because they are too nice, and strippers, who 
they do like, and about Boston, where they had never been before. Basically the Supersuckers are 
genuinely nice guyS orf someone told them to be nice to their fans. | suspect it's a little of both. 
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The posters were 
everywhere: "Jim Rose Circus 
Sideshow. . . Midnight. . . Freaks!" 
The night of the show arrived and 
as the witching hour approached 
no necessity for a slick, flashy 
barker hawking the venue existed. 
A line spread three people thick 

tending a half block back 

ollectively hungered for the 
bizarre. Suddenly- The dreaded 
announcement was made-"SOLD 
OUT!" Inside, literally thousands 
of people craned their necks to see 
Mr. Rose's Cabaret of the 
Nauseating. The clubs usual Punk 
crowd was there, but tonight mixed 
in were the purveyors of Classic 
Rock, Top 40 and Sweet Soul 
Music. For tonight was not about 
music (though it was very "Rock 
and Roll"). Tonight was about 
Freaks-and voyeurism knows no 
social boundaries. 

Actually "Freak" is not 

“tly correct. "Geek" is more 
‘rate. In a sideshow a Freak 
ld usually be someone 
ysically different than the 
ormal ” people who make up the 
audience. A pinhead or mulefaced 
woman are examples. A Geek is a 
sideshow entertainer who does 
something bizarre, or disgusting to 
genteel sensibilities for the pleasure 
of the viewing audience 
(traditionally biting the head off of 
a live chicken and drinking the 
blood). That is closer to what Jim 
Rose's posse of young, body 
manipulators and modern 
primitives are. If you go expecting 
to see Siamese twins (as my friend 
did) you may be disappointed. 

Besides Mr. Rose and his . 

lovely assistant (whose job differs 


from Vanna White's in amount of 
time handling maggots and bile 
and tracheal fluid covered objects) 
there were four performers that 
evening. Billy Ray Cyrus lookalike 








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Torture King, with an expression of 
dour seriousness, displayed his 
chest as a human pincushion with 
over 40 needles piercing the skin. 
He then stuck needles and skewers 
through the skin of his throat, arm, 
orbit of his eyes and in one cheek 
and out the other. His bored, . 
distant expression showed no pain 
or emotion and from where I was 
standing, his skin showed no 
blood. Later when I spoke to him 
up close, his body actually did look 
like you'd expect one to after 
sticking pins through it, but during 
the show it's amazingly clean 
looking. Also his mood was much 
friendlier and more open than his 
stage personality. I guess it's 
important not to seem too normal 
when your skewering yourself for 
showbiz purposes. 

Mr. Lifto, a handsome young 
oddity emerged in drag, looking 
not unlike the killer in Silence of 
the Lambs (not Hannibal, the other 
one). He then lifts weights and 


. irons (the kind you iron clothes 


with) with hooks in his pierced 
ears, tongue, nipples and of course, 
penis. This stunt was the favorite 
of the fellow next to me. 





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The star attraction is The 
Tube. His big trick is to insert 
seven feet of rubber hose into his 
stomach via his nose and then 
have 40 ounces of beer, some 
ketchup, chocolate syrup and a 
bottle of Maalox pumped into his 
stomach and then sucked out with 
a giant syringe. Then the extracted 
liquid, now greenish from the bile, 
is poured into cups and drunk by 
the performers, with Al 
Jourgenson of Ministry as the guest 
Mocha-Bile Beer Cocktail drinker 
of that evening. This stunt brings 
down the house. My favorite 
performer was Slug. Slug plays 
keyboard circus organ style in 
accompaniment all night until it is 
his turn to shine. After a velvet 
throated rendition of Misty, he 
leaves the ivories to demonstrate 
that his esophagus has other skills. 
After eating some worms, crickets 
and maggots, he wows the 
audience with classic sword 
swallowing. What is most 
appealing about Slug is that he 
shows the most personality during 
his act, specifically he acts like a 
mugging, wise-assed, likable little 
kid - one that would eat worms to 
show off and make the girls go 
"ewwwwww. 

The soul of the sideshow, 
though, is of course Mr. Rose 
himself. Manically emceeing 
shirtless in a vest with his boxers 
pulled way higher then his pants’ 
waistline (cool 90's style), Mr. Rose 
hawks his cadre ( at one point 
screaming at Torture King “I would 
never exploit you!") adding humor 
to the unsettling and framing the 
performers acts with his own 
classic tricks (Bed of Nails, lying in 
glass, straitjacket escape, etc.). 
What he adds to these old 
chestnuts is his style. Houdini 
used to perform to a patient 
audience sitting in-a theater for 
hours while he would perform a 
seemingly impossible escape. 


What is most striking about 
the entire act is that these 
performers are, in some ways, 
mirror images of the punk 
members of their audience. They 
are young, grundgy, intelligent 
people who are tapped into a 
certain energy that a lot of their 
generation feels. The Generation 
X,"Slacker", “Eightball” and "Dirty 
Plotte" comix, RESearch books, etc. 
etc. Groove. Rose's Geeks share 
more than a Seattle home in 
common with SubPop records and 
Today's audiences wouldn't play “Hate” comics. I can't explain it 
that. They want blood! So instead _ any better than that who they are 
of going the usual magician route- truly fits in. Jim Rose puts part of it 
trying to impress audiences by 
developing better and more 
baffling tricks and illusions- Rose 
does old tricks louder and nastier 
then anyone before. 

While a modern audience 
would be expected to marvel at a 
straitjacket escape only if it was 
done remarkably fast or as part of a 
dangerous scenario (suspended 
over blades or something), Mr. 
Rose appeases the audience by 
escaping slowly and methodically- 
WHILE SCREAMING IN PAIN! 
(He of course proceeded the trick 
with an allusion to intentional 
shoulder dislocation.) Another 
time he does an old Houdini trick 
of swallowing needles and thread 
and regurgitating a threaded 
needle. Instead of needles, though, 
he uses razor blades. Now 
obviously threading needles is 
more impressive, but razors-That is 
so gross! And therein lies the heart 
of the magic of the 90's that sells 
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Chicago, Dlinois is world 
renowned for it's R 'n' B tradition. 
Many famous bluesman such as 
Howlin’ Wolf, Muddy Waters and 
Little Walter recorded under Chess 
label and that is one reason why 
Chess is considered, historically, 
Chicago's most important R'n'B 
record label. While Chess is 
deservedly recognized, we must 
acknowledge the contributions of 
Vee Jay records, an independent 
label whose influence and music is 
less known, but in the world of 
R'n'B is possibly just as significant. 

Vee Jay was the first Black- 
owned major record company. Vee 
Jay's success was due in part to its 
versatility and because its product 
was firmly grounded in and did not 
part from its Black roots. As with 
Chess, Vee Jay's roots grew up from 
the South. And the Southern 
Black music that played an 
essential role in the history of Vee 
Jay was Gospel. 

In his book on Soul music 
Nowhere To Run , Gerri Hershey 
describes Chicago as a Gospel 
"fortress". It was the demand for 
Gospel records in the Chicago area 
that motivated Vivian Bracken, 
husband James Bracken and Calvin 
Carter to establish Vee Jay. (Vee 
stands for Vivian and Jay for 
James.) Randy Wood, who became 
the president of Vee Jay in 1963, 
tells about the formation of Vee Jay 
in Arnold Shaw's great book 
Honkers and Shouters : 

"The company started out as 
a Gospel label. The Brackens had a 
set of small retail record shops in 
the suburbs of Chicago, as far out as 
Gary (Indiana). They had 


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just didn't have sufficient product. 
Companies like Apollo and Savoy 
had limited catalogues. People 
interested in Gospel collect records 
the way kids collect their favorite 
Rock artists. James Bracken told 
me that that was one of the reasons 
for forming Vee Jay.” (p. 327) 

One of the great Soul singers 
with a background in Gospel is 
Jerry Butler. Like many Black 
Chicago artists, Jerry Butler was 
born in the South ( Sunflower, 
Miss. ) and as a youth moved to 
Chicago. When he was only 15 
years old Butler's father passed 
away, leaving him to support his 
three siblings by singing Gospel. 
Despite his singing talents, he 
studied to be a chef and an ice 
sculptor (Hence, among other 
reasons, Butler's nickname, "The 
Iceman"). After a time, he began 
singing at Traveling Souls 
Spiritualist Church where a 
meeting with songwriter Curtis 
Mayfield and Sam Goodin led to 
the formation of the Impressions. 

At the Impressions’ audition 
for Vee Jay in 1958, Butler sang 
"For Your Precious Love” which 
shot up to the Top Ten in five 
weeks. But without consulting 
members, Calvin Carter had the 
credits read: "Jerry Butler and the 
Impressions” which caused friction 
and his breakup with the band. As 
a solo artist, Butler scored a 
number one hit on the R'n'B 
charts with "He Will Break Your 





Heart". In 1962, in an effort to cross 


over into the mainstream, he 
_recorded “Moon River" and the 
following year he recorded “Make 
it Easy on Yourself", written by 
Burt Bacharach and Hal David. 


Both songs made the Pop and R 'n' 
B charts, and although Butler called 
the songs "prostitution in a sense,” 


he acknowledged the legitimacy of ‘ 


reaching wider audiences and 
making money. (Shaw, p. 326) 
From the beginning, Vee Jay 
Records sought to cross over into 
the Pop record markets. While 
Chess records recorded Blues that 
was raw and authentic and scored 
hits with rockers like Bo Diddley 
and Chuck Berry, Vee Jay found 
Chicago's vocal groups could sing 
ballads that could be hits in the Pop 
market. Vee Jay's first release was 
by the Spaniels, a group that started 
singing together at Roosevelt High 
School. Named after a dog breed 
and possessing super cool vocals, 
the Spaniels scored a huge hit with 
“Goodnight, Well It's Time to Go", 
a 1954 release. 
Another group with a smash 

ballad hit on Vee Jay was the Dells, 
who began singing in choir and 


then together at Thorton Township 


High School. In his book Rhythm 
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group and one of the last of the 
great R ‘n' B giants of the fifties." 
(p. 257) The Dells' biggest hit, 
indeed the song that became 
Synonymous with them, was "Oh, 
What a Night", recorded in May of 
1956. The song featured an 
interesting use of call-and-response 
with lead singer Johnny Funches 
repeating "Oh, what a night" while 
the group responded with "To hold 
Ou...to squeeze you". "Oh What a 
Night" reached number four on 
the R'n'B charts and started the 
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Show" and "The Tonight Show’. 
The Dells are still active today and 
are celebrating 1992 as their 40th 
year in the business. (see next issu 
for more on the Dells) 
The production of Calvin 

Carter at Vee Jay was a creative 
force in making the records hits. 
"Records cut by Vee Jay were true 
vocal records with lean 
instrumental backgrounds. Voices 
were used inventively to fill the 
Spaces generally assigned to 
instruments.” (p. 317, Shaw) With 
the exception of "Sincerely" by the 
Moonglows (one of whom was a 
brother of one of the Spaniels), 
Chess Records' experiments in 
production dealt mostly with 
adding echo and distortion to 
Blue's vocals. 


Another Vocal group who 


scored a hit with Vee Jay was the El 


Dorados who came from 
Englewood High School. The El 
Dorados sound as outgoing and 
partying as the Spaniels sound cool. 
The El Dorados, who recorded with 
Vee Jay from ‘54 through ‘58, had 
one smash hit entitled "At My 


‘Front Door", which reached 


number 1 on the R 'n’ B charts in 
1955. Although the group recorded 
many great ballads, such as “I 
Began to Realize", "At My Front 
Door" is their most intense, 
rockingest tune-I love that song. 

With songs like the ones 
mentioned and other successful 
releases by artists such as John Lee 
Hooker, Jimmy Reed and Dee 
Clark, it is no wonder Vee Jay 
Records was initially very 
successful. Within two years of the 
Spaniels "Goodnight, Well it's 
Time to Go" Vee Jay owned a 
building on Michigan Avenue 
across the street from Chess. By 
1962, Vee Jay was selling incredible 
amounts of records with a white 
band called The Four Seasons who 
had three number one Pop hits in 
‘62 and ‘63, “Sherry”, "Big Girls 
Don't Cry", and “Walk Like a 
Man". 

Despite it's early prosperity, 
the strings of hit records and the 
outward appearance of thriving 
enterprise, Vee Jay folded in 1965. 
Through a deal negotiated by 
Randy Wood in 1963, Vee Jay 
released four Beatles singles in '63 
and '64, but the Beatles did not 
catch on in the states until "I want 
to Hold Your Hand", which was 
released by Capitol. This was bad 
luck for Vee Jay, but even if the 
Beatles had scored with Vee Jay, it 
still might not have saved the label 
which was mismanaged and in 
debt. 

When Randy Wood took 
over as president in 1963, Vee Jay 
was trying to regroup from every 
standpoint-from the location of 
masters to paying creditors, 
distributors and artists. As Wood 
stated, “We found one pressing to 
whom we owed a quarter of a 
million dollars. At one point, we 
had no fewer than sixty-four legal 





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acts going on." (p. 338, Shaw) Part 
of the problem was past owner 
Abner Ewert's refusal to straighten 
out the bookkeeping. Also because 
the business was family owned, 
there was a reluctance to fire any of 
the ‘dead weight”. After missing a 
chance to sign hitmaker Johnny 
Rivers, Vee Jay's luck had run out. 
They filed for bankruptcy in 1965 
and a company called Modern 


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WHITE BOY READS 8% FEWER BLACK 
MALES GO TO COLLEGE THAN 1980, 
RUSHES UP TO GROUP RAPPING AT 
SLUM ST. CORNER TO MOTIVATE - 


a. You guys’ got equal access 
b. to make yourselves a success 
c. Get unstuck from this mess! 
IN RESPONSE, THEY RAP BACK 


1e You expect us 
to matriculate? 


2. Having grown up in 

' @ separate state? 

3. Don’t you shake your finger. 

White Boy, it’s too late! 

WELL, SAYS WHITE BOY. WHY 

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several record companies. 

The rise and fall of Vee Jay 
Records is important because of the 
great authentic R ‘n’ B that came 
out of Chicago in the ‘50's and 
'60's. The songs of the vocal 
groups and Soul singers of Chicago 
influenced R ‘n’ B and Pop and, 
hence, Rock and Roll. 

As a business, Vee Jay is 
important as the first Black owned 
record company. As R'n'B expert 
Arnold Shaw puts it: “Perhaps Vee 





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Jay's experience as a Black owned 
label that failed helped Berry Gordy 
build the Black owned enterprise 
that became the fabulously 
successful Motown entertainment 
complex. 


Also recommended; The World of 
Soul by Arnold Shaw and Chicago 
Soul by Robert Pruter. 


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really tiny moments that ‘ave inspired 


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Duten resistance fighter during Nazi 
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tne correct song title, , that's a 
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‘usoana beat her up basically alncst 
ev'ry night for fifteen years. ‘e 
ca-2 ‘ome drunk one night pissed ou% 
of nis brains and she waited ‘til ce 
fallen asleep and then she ‘alt killed 
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» What wes your best “alloween ccostune? 
: un... 1 went as Castro last year 

in Gan Francisco for the Sis gay Sort 
of talloween special, and + = 
ended up without any clotnes. 


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A: What about when you were a kid? 
-; Fuckin ‘ell, let me ‘ave a chink. 


Ch we did a brilliant thing...°* were'nt 
actually on ‘alloween, we ‘ac i+ after 
‘aloween. Where all of us sade costunes 
for sorebodies birthday ard..uh,.ane 
were a Creature from the Black 12690", 
and i made nyself a fifteen foot wire 
tail. 

R: Wow... 

IPut I couldn't fuckin’ sit down ail 
Went to this rest'raunt 2 "ad 


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‘alioween in 
the way «nar you ‘ave i+, I neayn we 
tave ‘alloween out it’s nore aia pacs. 
In Englan? you got Guy Fawkes , 7iftn o 
Novenber, wnetTe we celeorace Guy Fawkes 
trying to turn down Houses of rariianer 
and ev'ryoocy ‘as a fire, Ajl whe kiss 
in tnglarc ‘ave a fire on tne fifth of 
“oventer. -%'s funny because ev'rvor 
pretty mucs eelebrates Guy Feetés , 2u* 
‘se actually did it because ‘e were 4 
religious zealot. 

2: Yean? 

L: You mow, a xaniac Catholic and trie 
to burr. it secause ‘e wanzea a returm 
to Tatholocisa@. 50 you K.OW...our Guy 
Fawxes night is brillianz. we used ~ 


light a borzire ev'ry year. 
Qa: You nave five seconds, Say somethin 


outrageous. ( A phrase eacn of the tan 
members taS printed on *ne=r t-shirts. 
L: I Gon't know if it’s outragecis, be 
I've just discovered fistfucking, anc 
it's incredible. it's far sever thas 
normal penetretion. A pit of cract: 
and youre *nere. That's not outrage 
it's tecnnica.. 

2..eLubrication...you need a lot? 
sLubrication and a glove. 

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sn the glove. 


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